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The Pentagon's report about Marines & the US army
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| M.Johan |
Well this's the fourth report
which shows these damn results,no surprise.............
| quote: | U.S. Marines unlikely to report civilian abuse: study
Fri May 4, 2007 3:32pm ET
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only 40 percent of Marines and 55 percent of U.S. Army soldiers deployed in Iraq say they would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an innocent Iraqi, a Pentagon report released on Friday shows.
The Army survey, which showed increasing rates of mental health problems for troops on extended or multiple deployments, also said well over one-third of soldiers and Marines believe torture should be allowed to elicit information that could save the lives of American troops or gain knowledge about Iraqi insurgents.
Overall, about 10 percent of the 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines covered in the survey said they had mistreated civilians, either through physical violence or damage to their personal property. The survey was conducted by U.S. Army medical experts between August 28 and October 3, 2006.
"Soldiers with high levels of anger, who had experienced high levels of combat or who screened positive for mental health symptoms were nearly twice as likely to mistreat noncombatants," acting Army Surgeon General Gale Pollock told reporters.
The findings, which included the first survey of ethics among U.S. troops in combat, were released Friday in an 89-page report posted on the Web site www.armymedicine.army.mil. It was delivered to senior military officials in November.
Claims of U.S. mistreatment of Iraqi detainees and civilians have shadowed American forces in Iraq from revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 to reports of the November 19, 2005, killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by Marines in Haditha.
The survey data came out a month after Defense Secretary Robert Gates extended tours for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to up to 15 months instead of one year as U.S. forces increase their numbers in Iraq under a plan ordered by President George W. Bush.
The extended tours were widely seen as the latest sign of strain placed on the U.S. military by the two wars.
There are currently some 145,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and 25,000 in Afghanistan. Bush's plan calls for boosting the U.S. deployment in Iraq by 28,000 combat and support troops.
The report, the fourth prepared by the Army's Mental Health Advisory Team since the war in Iraq began in 2003, showed that mental health problems such as acute stress, anxiety and depression rose among troops facing longer deployments or their second or third tour in Iraq.
Overall, about 20 percent of Army soldiers and 15 percent of Marines showed mental health symptoms of either anxiety, depression or acute stress. The rate was at 30 percent among troops with high combat experience.
Among Army soldiers, 27 percent of those with more than one tour of duty tested positive for a mental health problem, versus 17 percent for soldiers on their first deployment.
The rate of anxiety, depression and acute stress stood at 22 percent among soldiers deployed for more than six months and at 15 percent for troops in Iraq for less than six months.
Army experts recommended that the Pentagon extend the interval between deployments to 18 to 36 months so that troops could recover mentally.
Gates said last month that troops in the region covered by the U.S. Central Command -- from East Africa to Central Asia -- could expect to spend 12 months at home between deployments. |
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| quote: | | 40% percent of Marines and 55 percent of U.S. Army soldiers deployed in Iraq say they would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an innocent Iraqi, a Pentagon report released on Friday shows. |
| quote: | | Overall, about 10 percent of the 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines covered in the survey said they had mistreated civilians, either through physical violence or damage to their personal property. |
:wtf: :mad:
is that because of pressure or stress
or not caring about civilian rights.
more than 5 years in Iraq ,and the worse events are still continue. |
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| digitul punk |
Noooo... don't say anything.. they are fighting "terrorists from the axis of evil" in Iraq! LOL! Doesn't really come to me as a surprise either... How many times have we seen these atrocities only to be forgotten because Dubya says so? It's obviously not the first time this has happened, and probably not the last either.
Go ahead and deny the atrocities your armies commit on human life in the name of "freedom" and create your little bubbles of reality so that it doesn't affect you. :rolleyes: |
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| M.Johan |
| quote: | Originally posted by digitul punk
Noooo... don't say anything.. they are fighting "terrorists from the axis of evil" in Iraq! LOL! Doesn't really come to me as a surprise either... How many times have we seen these atrocities only to be forgotten because Dubya says so? It's obviously not the first time this has happened, and probably not the last either.
Go ahead and deny the atrocities your armies commit on human life in the name of "freedom" and create your little bubbles of reality so that it doesn't affect you. :rolleyes: |
:wtf:
the (first) thing is mentioned here that this's the fourth report,
means that that facts warn worse matters, crises, and the complexities are not solved.
And Do u think that wat's going on from accumulations & disasters in Iraq or in ur country,
donnot matter here,here in the M.East :wtf: :wtf: :conf: !!???
Everyone assert here that the problem is politices which're politicized by US officials in the political fieldes and workers in policy beside AQ groups ,the crises and disasters and misfortunes are the result of previous worest politices and platforms, these politices're not born today but are taught for some time and are renewed every period and add and delete them by the repercussions of the stage and the time of security.
Invasion of Iraq's acknowledged and recognized that it's a disaster (after the fall of Baghdad).
And today,it's known that the interactions resulting from the accumulated deficits for finding solutions to these crises have reached catastrophic into any straw,surrounding the whole Iraq,M.East & USA. |
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| Arbiter |
Amazing, who would have thought that war could be so unpleasant? I would have assumed it would be thorougly conducive to one's mental health and it goes without saying that soldiers would be more concerned with the just treatment of a total stranger than protecting the people they have to fight alongside.
Tell me, if the "war in Iraq" consisted of a bunch of men in tights prancing around in the desert with rainbows streaming out from their asses behind them as they casually throw friendly gibes and insults at each other, would that be satisfactory? |
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| digitul punk |
| quote: | Originally posted by M.Johan
:wtf:
the (first) thing is mentioned here that this's the fourth report,
means that that facts warn worse matters, crises, and the complexities are not solved.
And Do u think that wat's going on from accumulations & disasters in Iraq or in ur country,
donnot matter here,here in the M.East :wtf: :wtf: :conf: !!???
Everyone assert here that the problem is politices which're politicized by US officials in the political fieldes and workers in policy beside AQ groups ,the crises and disasters and misfortunes are the result of previous worest politices and platforms, these politices're not born today but are taught for some time and are renewed every period and add and delete them by the repercussions of the stage and the time of security.
Invasion of Iraq's acknowledged and recognized that it's a disaster (after the fall of Baghdad).
And today,it's known that the interactions resulting from the accumulated deficits for finding solutions to these crises have reached catastrophic into any straw,surrounding the whole Iraq,M.East & USA. |
Dude... I think u took my post the wrong way. |
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